Whilst scrolling through books on pagebound, I became curious and wanted to know the lowest rated books on this app. (Aside from books that have less than 10 ratings.) Also because scrolling through one star reviews is oddly entertaining for me 😂.

So far, the lowest rated book that I have seen is Lightlark by Alex Aster, with an overall rating of 3.5 stars. I have read this book myself and to be honest it wasn’t that bad. I think that the concept was amazing, though the way that it was executed was done poorly. There were a lot of plotholes, and the love triangle just became annoying.

“Last was Sawyer, who was just… some guy.”

This made me snort. Extremely funny.

Idk how the punctuation is written because I’m listening to the book, but this punctuation seemed fitting for how the line was delivered 😂

Last quarter, we trialed a new way to create Quests. Lists were nominated by Pagebound Royalty, the entire community voted, and 3 Quests inspired by 3 winning Lists were created.

It’s time to do it again 🎉 How this will work:

1. Royalty members can nominate a List (their own or any community List) that would make a great starting point for a Quest. Royalty members will receive a notification today with a link to a form to fill out by EOD June 23rd to nominate. The form will include context about what makes for a great Quest. Folks who join Royalty through June 23rd will receive an email with a link to the form.
2. The entire Pagebound community will then vote on which nominated Lists will inspire Quests. Everyone will receive a notification on June 24th with a link to vote.
3. The creators of 3 winning Lists will be emailed and can accept/reject.
4. If they accept, we will create a Quest inspired by their List, adapting the title & book list if necessary to fit Quest guidelines (for example, if a List has 20 books, we will reduce it to 15 for a Side Quest; if a List includes all 7 books of a series, we would put book 1).

We will be introducing another avenue to Quest creation in the fall: community-voted User of the Month (exact language TBD). The entire PB community can nominate a user they believe embodies PB values. The user with the most nominations will be awarded a badge and the ability to create 1 Quest.

The community-voted List winners and future Users of the Month will be listed as the Quest creator, and for Main Quests, this means they’ll be able to add new releases over time (capped at 100 books). The evergreen nature of Main Quests ensures their relevancy for many years to come, but of course, that’s a big commitment to ask of a Quest creator, so Jennifer & I are always available to take over curation if the original creator becomes inactive.

Looking forward to seeing the wonderful Lists that get nominated!

Jennifer & Lucy

did all of us readers have our wattpad/ ao3 era?? and did it all start at like 10-12 bcz i feel like we are all living the same life over here😪

I recently started playing this game called On Together. It’s like a productivity game where you can set up a pomodoro timer and set your character up doing whatever action you are going to be doing. I’ve been using it for my reading sprints recently and have been loving it 🫶 if any of you join and see a server called Reading Sprints, please feel free to join and let’s cheer each other on to reach our reading goals! ✊

Hi besties.

Shoutout your monthly wrap up BFFs 🫶🏼

This is absolutely such a cute addition and something very unexpected! I think it’ll help create some really fun memories remember books you read and the people who supported that book journey the most, or you connected with the most in a certain timeframe!

Mine in comments. 👀☺️